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Executable should automatically start with realtime priority on Windows
On an Windows 7 PC (used for legacy music software), I notice that enabling Windows Task Manager > Right click on process > Set priority > Realtime on a particular audio software improves ...
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Why is VLC Player unable to keep up with decoding a video when another program is using CPU, even though it's low priority?
I'm running ffmpeg on Windows 7 to re-encode some videos to x265. While it's running I want to watch some other videos in VLC Player (also x265-encoded, so decoding them takes a lot of CPU, too). I ...
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Set disk I/O priorities in Win7 or only allow disk access to specific processes (via batch file)?
The former would be more elegant but the latter is also fine for my purposes (and probably the more errorproof solution).
I capture 720p50-HDTV losslessly (ULH0/ULH2) and my archive-drive is fast ...
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Is process priority periodically recalculated by OS?
I have a question regarding win-7 schedule and process priority.
The scenario is: I have a process running, initially in priority "Normal"
I find this process to be often reduced to Background (Low ...
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Change default priority for an exe (every time the program is launched)
I have a big image manipulation program that runs slow and that I am used to run with no other apps. I want to permanently set the exe to run at a higher priority.
I could run it through a batch file ...
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Reactivate Dormant Processes in Windows7
I have a very computationally intensive program (which I wrote in python) and starting two days ago I ran 6 copies of it in parallel (using 6 Cygwin terminals on a Mac Book Pro running Windows7 in ...
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Internet lags for me, but not for my brother
Recently we had a new switch setup in our basement, plus my PC has the newest parts oldest dating 2012. When I play games that requires instant responding like Counter-Strike, League of Legends, FIFA ...
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Automatically starting a child process with 'High' priority?
My computer running Windows 7 is getting old, and Flash content stutters a bit too much. I am finding that elevating the priority of the plugin process helps a lot.
I know of the /high switch to ...
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Can't change process priority in Windows 7
I need to use MATLAB in realtime, but when I go to the Task Manager and try to change it, it's giving me an error:
Unable to set Realtime priority. The priority was set to High instead.
I tried to ...
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Always run .exe with certain priority
I have an executable, say foo.exe. Because of a bug I need this executable to run at "low" priority at all times. The executable gets opened by another executable so replacing it with a batch file is ...
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How can I automatically change the priority of Javaw.exe when loading Minecraft?
I launch Minecraft.exe which invokes Javaw.exe. I wish for Javaw.exe to be running in High priority because Minecraft lags if not.
I tried invoking Minecraft.exe with a high priority by doing this:
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How can I force Windows 7 to give my LAN (wired) conection priority over my WiFi?
Given the choice between my LAN (wired) and my WiFi connections, my Windows 7 PC gives priority to the WiFi - how can I make it prioritize the LAN connection?
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Windows File Access Precedence
Is there a way to tell Windows to give certain programs higher priority for file system access? As an analogy, you can give a certain program higher CPU priority, so that you can keep using a certain ...
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In Windows-7 run command from batch file with reduced priority
I am starting a long, memory and CPU-intensive run. I know how to change the process priority manually from the task manager.
Is there a way that I can run it at low priority from a .bat file, since ...
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Scheduled Task Priority and Paging problems
I just scheduled a task in my Windows 7, and I have 2 problems with it:
The process starting with Below Normal priority.
Even after manually changing the priority to Normal (via Task Manager), the ...
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